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Today's ICJ ruling ends a five-year effort by the Bolivian government and five ex-presidents to require Chile to help end Bolivia's landlocked status, a product of the War of the Pacific in the 1880s.
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Bolivians' faith in the legal obligation of Chile to negotiate on this issue is a matter of singular unity in a fractious political environment.
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By contrast, many Bolivians were distinctly unaware of the limited prospects of this lawsuit.